Title:  Software Engineer Associate

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the CCA Insurance technology team in Canada & Colombia ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

1. Iteratively design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance high quality software solutions

• Create robust, resilient, high volume applications that are highly scalable and extensible

• Participate on an ongoing, active, and concurrent basis as technical consultant, informing design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of new / packaged solutions or significant enhancements to existing applications to deliver the best possible application performance

• Contribute clear and maintainable code to a shared codebase

• Ability to design, prototype, and strategize solutions to propose to the team / Product Owner/ business sponsor to drive improved technology solutions that support business strategy

• Participate in estimating, tasking, status, and stand-up meetings in agile work ceremonies

• Seek and integrate feedback from Product Owner and team to deliver optimal solutions

• Collective ownership of project delivery

2. In an agile environment, develop cost effective and efficient applications to meet business objectives by analyzing user requirements, providing technical specifications and design and developing/maintaining programs according to standards. Ensure programs and applications developed meet the high availability, integrity, and reliability of the on-line transaction processing environment
3. Provide production and user acceptance testing support by identifying, evaluating, escalating, resolving problems, and supporting other team members. The incumbent may be required to provide after-hours support to ensure systems are operational according to documented user service level agreements. 
4. Ensuring all functionality is delivered as required.
5. Conduct technical walkthroughs and code reviews.
6. Keep current on rapidly changing technological trends, self-teach new technologies and maintain an understanding bank technology strategy.
7. Provide production support as required
8. Good interpersonal and communication skills provide user support and interact with team members and other departments.

Education

-        B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Information sciences, or equivalent

Experience

-        +2 years programming experience in Java Web

-        Experience within the financial industry an asset

Front End Technical skills:

• JavaScript - Strong
• AngularJS/ ReactJS
• Response Web Design
• Micro UI design patters (Optional)

Back End Technical skills:

• Java11 - Strong
• SprintBoot
• RestAPI
• JSON
• Microservices
• SOAP Web Service

Competencies

-Good oral, written communication skills and proven ability to present to varied groups.

-Openness to ideas, willingness to take different task or role, focus on the customer, and a constant view of the big picture.

-Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data.

-Takes accountability for results and exhibits a “can do attitude”

- Has an appetite to continuously evolve and improve, to tackle difficult problems and seek/give constant feedback